Gogue

[1]: 64 [2]: 190–91 Its purpose is to encourage the horse to raise the neck, free the shoulders and engage the hocks, so that he may develop the correct muscles for a rounded topline.

René Gogue invented his rein in 1948 and immediately became an adviser of famous European riders.

He theorized that poorly or unschooled horses had three points of resistance: the poll, the mouth, and the base of the neck.

The cord then follows the cheekpiece of the bridle up to a ring or pulley at the side of the browband, before going back down to snap to the leather piece near the chest.

The leather piece of the Gogue is attached to the girth, and it forks near the chest into two cords.